“The Mirror” by Nora Roberts
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Brittany Pressley did a great job of narrating this fanciful, yet creepy story.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of over 225 novels, known for romance published under her own name.[1] She also writes police procedurals which have elements of science fiction under the name J. D. Robb, and has published as Jill March and (in the U.K.) Sarah Hardesty.
Life and career[edit]
Personal life[edit]
Early years[edit]
Roberts was born on October 10, 1950, in Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children.[2] Her parents have Irish ancestry, and she has described herself as “an Irishwoman through and through”.[3] Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life.[4] Although she had always imagined stories from childhood, Roberts did not write in her youth other than essays for school. She does claim to have “told lies. Really good ones—some of which my mother still believes.”[5] She credits the nuns at her Catholic school for instilling in her a sense of discipline.[5]
Marriages[edit]
During her second year in high school, Roberts transferred to Montgomery Blair High School,[6] where she met her first husband, Ronald Aufdem-Brinke.[7] They married, against her parents’ wishes, in 1968, as soon as she graduated,[8][9] and settled in Boonsboro, Maryland.
Roberts’ husband worked at his father’s sheet-metal business before joining her parents in their lighting company. She gave birth to two sons, Dan and Jason. Roberts would later refer to this time period as her “Earth Mother” years, when she did crafts, including ceramics and sewing her children’s clothes.[8] The couple divorced[10] in 1983.
Roberts met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, a carpenter, when she hired him to build bookshelves in July 1985.[11][12] Her husband owns Turn the Page Books bookstore in Boonsboro[13] and works as an adult content photographer and videographer.[14] The couple also owned the nearby historic Boone Hotel. After it was destroyed by a fire in February 2008, it was restored and reopened as the Inn BoonsBoro in 2009; the suites were inspired by and named for literary romantic couples with happy endings.[15]
She is an ardent baseball fan, having been honored by the local minor league baseball team Hagerstown Suns several times.[16]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The mirror DB125821
Roberts, Nora. Reading time: 13 hours, 51 minutes.
Read by Brittany Pressley.
Suspense Fiction
Family
Supernatural and Horror Fiction
Romance
“#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts continues the hauntingly spectacular Lost Bride Trilogy with book two, The Mirror. When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets. Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past–and sees a bride murdered on her wedding day, the circle of gold torn from her finger. It is a scene that will play out again and again-a centuries-old curse that must be broken–and a puzzle she must solve if there is any hope of breaking the curse.”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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